Aldrich Plans Senate Gurrency Reform Bill Movement
The Senate session features Senator Aldrich reporting the banking bill from the Finance Committee and signaling a February 10 return for consideration. Amendments push for rapid currency issuance during stringency with new Treasury led quick approval and distribution rules. The bill raises note issuance to 500 million, adjusts bond collateral rules, and broadens security deposits for currency against state and municipal bonds.
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Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
Jerome Pleas for Justice in Thaw Case Draws Court Out
William Travers Jerome, for the people, delivers a calm, fair appeal in the Harry Kendall Thaw trial. He abandons sensationalism, admits Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’s testimony’s truth and denounces both Thaw and Stanford White as degenerates united by jealousy and wrong. The jurors receive instructions on possible verdicts and the trial resumes tomorrow.
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Commercial Tribune
Nework
William Travers Jerome
People
Harry Kendall Thaw
Mr. Jerome
Stanford White
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
Thaw
White
Harry Thaw
Justice Dowling
Jerome
Th Court of Appeals
Father shoots his son in Jasper dispute over horse
In Jasper Indiana on January 30 Philip Kastner fatally shot his son George during a quarrel over a horse. The elder Kastner owned the animal and claimed his son had poisoned it. He is jailed in Jasper.
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Commercial Tribune
Jasper
Ind
Philip Kastner
George
Kastner
Nine Miners Die in New River Colliery Explosion
Charleston W VA Jan 30 Nine miners are killed in the Lower Boone Mine near Hawk's Nest forty five miles from the city when an explosion wrecks the mine. Twenty five men were inside. eight died instantly, others escaped with minor injuries. The superintendent John Bowles survived severely injured. Gas and dust likely caused the blast. four deputy mine inspectors were sent to investigate.
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Commercial Tribune
Charleston
W. Va
New River
Lower Boone
Hawk’s Nest
Henry Holliday
John Bowles
A. J. Wagles
Charles Casse
Kentucky
Wilbur Wilson
John Clark
Richard Myers
Travies Faucht
Peter Barlow
Jackson
Bowles
Boone
Boone Coal and Coke Company
Paul
Three Miners Die In Shaft Explosion At Stu Art Shaft
In Fayette County near Thurmond three miners were instantly killed when an explosion occurred as they were lowered into the mine. The rope supporting the cage broke, dumping them to the shaft bottom. All three were white, but their names were not learned.
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Commercial Tribune
Thurmond
W. Va
Stuart
Fayette County
Here
Conflict Looms Between Russia and Austro-Hungary Over Rail Link
St Petersburg reports a serious conflict looming after Austria-Hungary unveiled plans for a direct Vienna Salonika Athens railway. Russia vows opposition, fearing Balkan destabilization. Berlin-Germany likely backing for a united front to restrain Ottoman reforms and a rail corridor under German–Austrian influence.
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Austria-Hungary
Vienna
Salonika
Athens
Baroa von ‘Aechrenthal
Balkan
Macedonia
Austria
Foreign Office Today
Austria- Hungary
Turkey
Persia
Germany
Hamburg
Pullman Measure Facing Opposition in Ohio Hearing
The Commercial Tribune reports in Columbus on January 30 that Pullman interests are quietly fighting a bill by Senator Hant to require the company to keep the river berth open when only the lower berth is sold. Emissaries will appear next Wednesday at the hearing. Senator Aubenz, committee chair, promises a full hearing for all interested parties.
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Pullman
Senator Hant
Aubenz
Senate Labor Committee
Reynolds
Fred C. Howe
Metzger
Ohio Railways
Senate Committee
Cuyahoga County
Cowboys Hunter Slain by Indian on Mescalero Reservation
A white cowboy J A McLane was killed on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico after tracing stray cattle. Indian authorities pursued an Indian suspect Da Ga In Ke whose party fled toward Mexico. A posse tracked the fugitives for days until the killer was shot by his own men on Light Bluff in the Sac Mountains.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
New Mexico
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Leupp
J. A. McLane
Mclane
Carroll
da Ga
Mexico
Curry
Sac © Mountains
Fleet Sighted Near Cape Virgins Heading to Pacific
A special dispatch from Buenos Ayres reports an American battleship in sight off Cape Virgins at 4 42 p m. The vessel, seen by smoke on the horizon, is presumed to be part of the fleet heading toward the Magellan Strait and thus toward the Pacific.
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Secretary of the Treasury
United States
the Treasury
Cape Virgins
Magellan Strait
Pacific
Public Buildings Funds Proposed for Williams Town and Pammeta Ky
Congressman Rhinock introduces two bills seeking 25000 each for public buildings in Williams town Kentucky and Pammet a Kentucky. The measures request appropriations to aid local government and civic facilities.
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Rhinock
Kentucky
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Williamstown
Pammenta
Better Off Dead Father Kills Three Tots in Chicago
William H Meutsch, carriage maker of 419 Armitage Avenue, shot and killed his 5 year old daughter Gertrude and fatally wounded two other children Jennie 3 and William 2 after quarreling with his wife. He surrendered to police in the basement closet claiming the children were better off dead. He hoped to kill an 18 year old daughter absent at the time.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
William H. Mentsch
Armitage Avenue
Meutsch
Gertrude
Jennie
Willliam
Harding
Lynch
Mentsch
Captain Harding
Daugh
Howe Franchise Tax Bill Falls in Ohio Senate
In Columbus on January 30 the Howe bill to value and apportion public franchise corporations for taxation failed in the Senate. Only 18 yes votes, with Harper and Denman among the noes, while Carter was absent and Boehmer did not vote. West opposed haste and urged awaiting a voter-approved constitutional change. The session included a temperance committee report in favor of Rose county local option and discussion on child labor and railroad injury bills.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Senate
Boehmer
Ohio
Howe
West
Berry
Bere
Committee On Taxation
Assembly
Harris
Ellis
Tax Commission
Temperance Committee
Rose County
Bethany College Strike Over Expulsion of Students
Nearly 300 Bethany College students including over 100 from Ohio plan to quit unless the faculty withdraws from expelling fifteen students for taking part in an effigy burning of President Cramblett ten days earlier. Sixty-three students quit today as the unrest spreads.
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Bellaire
Bethany College
Ohio
Cramblett
Tve
Beto
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